Buchanan Dress
A tartan of the Buchanan family.
Its design is pattern BWKBKYKYKBKBW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Buchanan Dress tartan groups 2 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan Dress ★ | DR/6 W68 K4 N8 K4 LO14 K4 LO14 K4 N8 K4 DO68 LB/6 | 412 | ~2002 | |
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| Buchanan, dress | 0.67 | R/6 W68 K4 N8 K4 Y14 K4 Y14 K4 N8 K4 O68 LB/6 | 412 | — |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Buchanan, dress
Nearest tartans
The nearest NAMED TARTANS — each represented by its master sett — by ΔTartan distance from this tartan's master, which leads the table so the swatches line up against it.











Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 10814 named tartans (their master setts) placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its master cloth. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
